I hope you take the time to enjoy
all of Parkmans history books. It was a summer well spent for me, listening to
each book at least twice during production while making them available on TR
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If you are a TR buff that would
like to do a little more than learn about his legacy & help others to see
the torch Theodore Roosevelt left burning with a hope that others would follow
the course that he charted, the following book description may be of interest to
you.

Is it a coincidence that the
following two paragraphs clipped from the introduction of this book seemed to
become part of Theodore Roosevelts personal philosophy. No one can say with
certainty what the building blocks of any individuals intellect may have been.
We can only guess at correlations between information a person has been exposed
to and their later actions that may suggest acceptance of the information as
being valid knowledge to live by. Parkmans words may have been a revelation or
re-enforcement of ideas already formed or overlooked and of less importance. But
what is known about TRs life story is that he went through life in a selfless
manner, that he had great success and wisdom in making the lives of others and
the nation prosperous and that he loved history and gained wisdom from knowing
past events and that the books he wrote conformed to what Parkmans principles
for writing history were professed to be. We also know TR was a jealous critic
of anyone that made errors when recording historical events which also suggested
that he took the following quotes to heart.

The springs of
American civilization, unlike those of the elder world, lie revealed in the
clear light of History.

Faithfulness to the truth of history
involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special
facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the
narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek
to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in
their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those
who took part in them, he must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator
of the action he describes.

The books we read impact upon the
well of knowledge of which we draw during our expedition through life. It is my
hope that those that recognize the enormous amount of wisdom that Theodore
Roosevelt drew upon in his journey through life will join the mission of this
web site and help in the production of making many of the books which he read
available in a central location by using this web site as a prototype or
perfecting it to be the Ultimate Theodore Roosevelt Library. Anyone helping with
such a project will leave something of benefit for future generations as TR and
Parkman have done in producing their books from a mountain of scattered
documents. What I am suggesting is the same process they used minus the tedious
process of trying to determine fact from fiction. We only need to bring the
books he wrote, the books about him and the books he read into the library for
others to sift through and draw correlations. Bringing diverse material into one
location is what Parkman spent a lifetime doing and is what TR did in
writing The Winning of the West and other history books. There is a
benefit and need for posterity to examine a collection of the books to which our
wisest and most successful president, Theodore Roosevelt, was exposed. Someday
someone would have a grand time seeking correlations of wisdom and making some
speculation about items in the diverse books that may have found expression in
his life as I have done with the aforementioned quotes.

Can we view
the buffalo today and a multitude of diverse wildlife that has not become
extinct because TR helped to save their habitat? Can we forget how the other
half lived and how their lives changed? We who live today are part of the other
half that would have been forgotten in the world of plunder and monopolies of
his day except for TR's selfless actions. Can we forget that all was
accomplished using honest verbiage with honest actions? If we have forgotten the
part TR played in making our lives better today, no one will understand of what
I am speaking when I suggest that we serve a little homage by trying to
understand a person America needs to remember in a grand way, so that others
become more apt to emulate what they discover in him that has benefit. If our
forgetful actions tells others a selfless life well- lived means nothing we can
expect societal degradation by our failure to recognize actions others should
emulate. We could build the Ultimate Theodore Library a book at a time or we can
watch ball games, TV shows, listen to music and do our daily chores and not
notice the low setting sun of our lives passing with no worthy action done
( due to a thirst for personal entertainment or personal gain). (Footnotes
have been removed from this book)

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